Kate on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Madrid Spain

Friday, January 16, 2015

"Magic Underwear" 1/16/2015

Madrid Soccer Stadium with Elder Rex, Hma. Kelemen and Hma. Moser

This week was really fun. For P-day we went to the real Madrid stadium.I'm not a huge soccer fan, but this made me want to be. It was prettycool. My time in the MTC is soon coming to an end. I want to cry. Idon´t want to leave my district, most of us are going to differentmissions and to be honest i don´t know if I will see a lot of themever again, at least not in this life. They really have become family.People say its hard to say goodbye to your family when you leave foryour mission. But honestly its nothing comparied to saying goodbye tothe people you meet. Because you know your going to see your familyand friends again. Its weird because this month flew by, but at thesame time... I felt like this is all my life has ever been. The parkof course was so much fun. My compaion was from Californa, and she isone of the newer missionaries, who just come for two weeks. Shealready knows spanish, so this time we actully made progress withpeople that spoke spanish. I loved serving with her. She was like me.Not afraid to talk to anyone. The first guy we talked to was on themetro. The metro is the train. We only are on it for 4 min to get tothe park, but in the 4 min, this man took a book of mormon and said hewas coming to church. He was the one asking us where thechurch was and what time it was at.... it was SUPER cool. He wasready. My testimony really grew from that. We did nothing, it was allhim. There are people who are looking.Okay random really funny story. At the park we ran into an American guy. He asked us ´hey you girls doing that 2 year thing for mormons?´ we were shocked and glad he knew who were where. But honestly thats ALL he knew. Except for one other thing... he asked us he had a big question for us about our church and wondered if we could help him. Excited we said YES, that is why were are here! He then said ´are you wearing that magic underwear... likeRIGHT now?´ Creep. it was really weird. But we said yes. He had SO many questions about it and about the temple. I told him to go to LDS.org and told him the church put out a video about all his questions he was asking. He was so happy to hear this. He took a restoration pamphlet and we shared the first vision. He kept telling us he wasn't interested in our religion, but he wanted to know stuff about it. ??? Sometimes I wish these people could hear themselves. Anyways SO glad you shared me that video. Because i didn't know how to explainthat. It was funny. I love it. Next week i will be in the field. Here is my messageto you, pray for my trainer. She has no idea what is about to come her way....B.F.G. I love you mom. You are great. Tell the family i love them to. Thank Lena for sending me letters, I love hearing from her. Love, Hermana Kelemen

This is my sister. We are twins in heart, and we look the same!Everyone gets us confused so we did this.